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US coastline Geography
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: juanafigueroa-ga List Price: $10.00 |
Posted:
22 Jun 2005 16:21 PDT
Expires: 06 Jul 2005 16:16 PDT Question ID: 536117 |
Hello, I want to find a map of the us coast line that shows where the international waters begin. Regards, Juan A. Figueroa. |
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Re: US coastline Geography
From: fooweaver-ga on 24 Jun 2005 12:55 PDT |
I'm not sure about a map, but the CIA world factbook (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html) lists the "Territorial Sea" for the US at 12 nautical miles. The Territorial Sea is: territorial sea - the sovereignty of a coastal state extends beyond its land territory and internal waters to an adjacent belt of sea, described as the territorial sea in the UNCLOS (Part II); this sovereignty extends to the air space over the territorial sea as well as its underlying seabed and subsoil; every state has the right to establish the breadth of its territorial sea up to a limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles; the normal baseline for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea is the low-water line along the coast as marked on large-scale charts officially recognized by the coastal state; the UNCLOS describes specific rules for archipelagic states. (ibid) Here are the listings for other nations: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2106.html |
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